‘God is the biosphere’s “fully natural creativity” in which all living beings share in a kind of co-divinity.’… Read the rest

A priest raping a boy in a wheelchair is trivial in comparison.… Read the rest

Retired Catholic archbishop says they didn’t understand that child abuse is a crime.… Read the rest

Contemptible stuff.… Read the rest

Former Labour leader protested the ‘supine surrender’ by Bertie Ahern’s government to the religious orders.… Read the rest

There is a nightmarish quality to this systemic malice, reminiscent of authoritarian regimes.… Read the rest

A mathematical pattern reveals Manhattan and a mouse to be variations on a single structural theme. … Read the rest

Archbishop of Westminster says it took ‘courage’ for clergy involved in child abuse to confront their actions.… Read the rest

She’s known all sorts of priests, but not the abusive kind, fancy that, it takes all kinds, have another drinky.… Read the rest

Children were slaves who made money for religious orders in mini factories, farms, and laundry services.… Read the rest

‘He should say that it is all about the children and the rest of them be damned. There are no excuses for religious orders.’… Read the rest

‘The sooner we find Daniel, the better,’ the sheriff said.… Read the rest

It has been easier to get men to relinquish their guns than their sense of sexual entitlement.… Read the rest

Church officials encouraged ritual beatings; inspectors failed to stop chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.… Read the rest

‘My mam died but they never told me she died. She died on Christmas Day but they never told me.’… Read the rest

‘For years we wouldn’t believe that she had tried to get us out, but she made numerous attempts and was told it was impossible.’… Read the rest

Behind that pious cloud of incense, there lurked the terrorising of destitute, orphaned children.… Read the rest

The judge and the British Chiropractic association did not take account of the growth of science activism.… Read the rest

This may be the start of a grass-roots movement to reform the UK’s repressive libel laws.… Read the rest

Children lived in ‘daily terror’ of being beaten, the long-awaited Commission into Child Abuse report has found.… Read the rest